On one call, I could sense by the tone of my daughter’s voice that something was wrong. It was. A family member had been hospitalized.

She’d tried to hide the truth from me on the phone, but I finally broke her down.

“Mom,” she said, “how is it possible you can tell by my voice from Europe that something’s wrong, but the Columbine parents didn’t know their sons were building bombs in the garage?”

How indeed?

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Ted Cruz smiles while speaking at a forum in Greenville, South Carolina.

OH, GOD! TED, WIFE ARE NUTS

It’s good to know that Ted Cruz is not running for president to gain power and glory but so that we can all see the power and glory of God’s face.

Or so said his wife Heidi, who may or may not have been speaking in tongues.

The other day, Heidi went on a South Carolina radio rant declaring that Ted is running to show us “the face of the God that we serve.”

What?

Heidi explained, “the God of Christianity is the God of freedom, of individual liberty, of choice and of consequence.”

Cruz’ father Rafael had earlier said it was the Holy Ghost who’d authorized Ted’s run.

What with endorsements from the Father and the Holy Spirit, apparently the campaign is just waiting for Jesus to throw his support behind Ted.

Or, as Ted said, “We can win if we awaken and energize the body of Christ.”

So far, nothing, though. Jesus has not made any miraculous appearances for Ted.

Jamie McCarthy

Huma Abedin attends the 2015 Glamour Women of The Year Awards dinner in New York City.

PUSH COMES TO SHOVE

Huma Abedin shoved a Hillary supporter out of the way after the Wisconsin debate as Hillary was schmoozing in her bizarrely bright yellow satin jacket.

The supporter had first shaken Hillary’s hand before moving in to hug Huma, but Huma wasn’t having any of it. Out went the arm, away went the woman.

Ooops. The shove was caught on camera by Eric Garland of TheHill.com and by the next day the video had already been viewed on social media half a million times.

Look, if you were married to Anthony Weiner, you wouldn’t want anyone touching you either.

EXPRESS LINES

Madeleine Albright has issued a mea culpa via the New York Times saying her remark about how women who don’t help women have a special place in hell while pushing for Hillary was undiplomatic.

No word on whether Albright’s hell extends to women who didn’t help Republican Carly Fiorina … Triple Crown winner American Pharoah had his “first date” with a fine filly named Untouched Talent on Friday.

Did they succeed in creating a Pharoanic heir?

Too soon to know, but American Pharoah did exit the barn smoking a cigarette and high-fiving the other studs … Gravity waves were just proved for the first time.

Does this mean that every 1.3 billion years, for a trillionth of a second, I get to weigh less? I’m all for it.

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